Lost Cause – 2026

Tuesday, April 14, 3:00 PM
Thursday, April 16, 3:15 PM

Lost Cause
Director: Adam Kritzer, Experimental, USA, 74 min
Adam has written an allegorical and fictional new musical about a Yom Kippur service that goes off the rails and transforms into an attempted therapy session for a powerful and controversial unelected bureaucrat. The work extensively quotes the renowned writer Rebecca Garten whose permission Adam must attain before proceeding. Skeptical from the start, Rebecca agrees to attend a reading of the play before deciding whether or not to support it.

Screens with:

Climate Control
Director: Sarah Lasley, Experimental, Germany, USA, 15 min
In this metafictional comedy about the climate crisis and generative AI, a director making a documentary about fossil fuel extraction is consistently subverted by an AI agent that wants to tell a generic love story.

The Shape of Things to Come
Director: Tommy Becker, Experimental, USA, 20 min
A six-chapter art rock film that delves into themes of nostalgia for the future, uncertainties of technological progress, and the quest for authentic human connection.